Need explanation for the output

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package main

import (
        "fmt"
        "os"
)

func main() {

        var a,b,e,f int

        fmt.Scanf("%d Scanf %d", &a, &b)
        fmt.Scanf("%d Scanf %d", &e, &f)
        fmt.Fprintf(os.Stdout, "%d - %d\n", a, b)
        fmt.Fprintf(os.Stdout, "%d - %d\n", e, f)
}

I ran the above code as

echo 1 2 3 4 5 6 | go run program.go

and the output that I got is

1 - 0
3 - 0

I just want to understand step by step for fmt.Scanf() function why the output came what it came…

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Scanf parses the arguments following the format string you gave it. So the first call expects to read num Scanf other_num to assing to num to a and other_num to b. You’ll see that if you call it like on of these:

echo 1 Scanf 2\n3 Scanf 4 | ./scanf-test
echo 1 Scanf 2 3 Scanf 4 | ./scanf-test

You’ll get this output as expected:

1 - 2
3 - 4

In your case, calling it with 1 2 3 4 5 6 made it scan 1, discard 2 as it didn’t follow the format, and then went on to scan 3 on the next call, which discarded 4 and finally printed everything.

You can read more about it here: https://golang.org/pkg/fmt/

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